MIDDLE EAST - Eighteenth-century French revolutionaries marched to La Marseillaise, and two centuries later, rock music spurred opposition to the Shah of Iran and Czechoslovakia's communist regime. It's no different with the uprisings in the Arab world.
"Arab hip-hop, especially that coming out of Tunisia and Egypt, played a major role in creating the soundtrack to the so-called Arab Spring," said Joshua Asen, a documentary filmmaker and writer of the Hip Hop Diplomacy blog.
